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means be sown in drills, and horse 

 hoed. The above writer from his 

 own experience concluded, that five 

 bushels of carrots might be as easi- 

 ly raised, as one bushel in the com- 

 mon method. My own experi- 

 ments have fully justified this opi 

 nion. 



Although, in a work like this, 

 some iiotice of the New Htsband ry 

 is proper, some have doubted whe- 

 ther it can be successfully applied 

 on an extensive scale in this coun- 

 try. See Drill Husbandry. 



NURSERY, agarden, or planta- 

 tion of young trees, to be trans- 

 planted. In a nursery for fruit 

 trees, the land should not be quite 

 so rich as that into which they are 

 to be transplanted ; because it will 

 be better for them to have their 

 nourishment increased than dimin- 

 ished, as they increase in age. 

 Therefore, a nursery will need but 

 a little manure, unless the soil be 

 uncommonly poor. 



A nursery should not be on a 

 spot where fruit trees have lately 

 grown, or indeed any other deep 

 rooted plants. It should be on a 

 medium between the two extremes 

 of wet and dry. 



To prepare the ground for sow- 

 ing, it should either be trench 

 ploughed, or dug with a spade to a 

 considerable depth. From a foot 

 to fifteen inches is not too deep. 

 This should be done in the latter 

 part of summer, and the ground 

 well cleared of the roots of all pe- 

 rennial weeds and grasses. The 

 season for planting either seeds or 

 atones, is about the month oi Octo- 

 ber. If it were done in the spring 

 none of the plants would be up in 



less than a year : And a considera- 

 ble proportion of the seeds would 

 perish. The seeds may be sown 

 promiscuously ; and they should be 

 pretty thick, because they will not 

 all come up. Some think it ne- 

 cessary to sow the pomace with the 

 seeds of apples. I have sown them 

 with and without it, and do not see 

 that sowing seeds with the pomace 

 is to be preferred. 



When you transplant trees of one 

 or two years growth in the nursery, 

 mark the ground in lines three feet 

 apart. Then open a trench a foot 

 wide on the first line, and of a depth 

 proportionable to the length of the 

 roots : Take the stocks out of the 

 seed bed, with a spade, preserving 

 the roots as entire as possible : Cut 

 off all the very small fibrous roots ; 

 and if a root tends directly down- 

 ward, it must be shortened : Plant 

 them in the trench twelve inches 

 asunder. Then dig a trench and 

 plant it in the next line, and sood, 

 till the business is completed. 



The main branch for the top 

 should not be cut off, but carefully 

 preserved. Several of the lateral 

 branches should be taken off more 

 or fewer in proportion as the root 

 is more or less diminished. In this 

 situation they are to grow till they 

 are transplanted into orchards, &c. 

 And they must be carefully tended, 

 or they will not become good trees. 

 Every spring and fall the ground 

 between the rows must be well 

 digged, and so carefully as not to 

 injure or disturb the roots ; or else 

 the intervals must be horse hoed. 

 If the latter be intended, the rows 

 should be planted at least three 

 feet and a half apart. But the 



